Chapter One Introduction Ⅰ. Academic Acceptance of Morrison's Works Ⅱ. Morrison Studies Related to Gender Politics, and the Body Ⅲ. Gender, Gender Politics, and the Body Chapter Two Gender Politics and the Loss of Subjectivity Ⅰ. The Black Body in Imagination Ⅱ. Remembering the Body in The Bluest Eye Ⅲ. Making of the Body in God Help the Child Ⅳ. Summary Chapter Three Gender Politics and the Establishment of Subjectivity Ⅰ. The Wounded Body and Language: Beloved Ⅱ. Scar, Transformation, and Voice: Beloved, and A Mercy Ⅲ. Scar and Maternal Healing: Beloved, and Paradise Ⅳ. Summary Chapter Four Gender Politics within African Americans Ⅰ. An Affirmation of Love in Beloved and Jazz Ⅱ. Envisioning Violence in Tar Baby Ⅲ. Reconstructing the Myth of Flight in Song of Solomon Ⅳ. Summary Chapter Five The Black Body as the Site of History Ⅰ. Beloved: Memory and History Ⅱ. Paradise: Gender, Race, and Victimhood Ⅲ. Jazz: Reconstructing Histories Ⅳ. Summary Chapter Six Conclusion References